Ange Postecoglou says his response to Tottenham Booing fans in their 1-0 loss to Chelsea was badly interpreted.
Spurs fans cheer “You don’t know what you are doing” to their boss under fire while he replaced Lucas Bergvall with Pope Sarr only at the watch with their team chasing and recording a target blow.
When Sarr scored from the verse just five minutes later, Postecoglou addressed the Spurs fans and seemed to take his ears in what was perceived by some as a response to Boos. The goal was excluded after a long VAR check.
But Postecoglou was surprised by this suggestion and insisted that he just wanted fans to enjoy the moment, feeling that if the goal had counted the game’s momentum would have returned for his team.
Asked about the incident, the Spurs chief said, “It is extraordinary how things are interpreted. We just scored, I just wanted to listen to them with cheers.
“We’ve had a hard time and I thought it was a cracking purpose. I wanted them to be really excited.
“I felt at the point that we could continue potentially and win the game. I just felt the moment was (going) on our way.
“That doesn’t bother me. It’s not the first time they have removed my replacements or my decisions. That’s good, they are allowed to do it, but we just scored a goal, we just scored a draw.”
Asked if he risked alienating fans by having that answer, Postecoglou added: “You know what? I’m in such a break with the world these days who knows, maybe you are right. But that’s not what was my goal.”
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Postecoglou, who is a loud critic of VAR, was angry with the duration of the time judge Craig Pawson passed trying to give Sarr’s intention.
The field officer was sent to his monitor after Sarr was tied up with the foot of Moises Caicedo in the moments just before his strike for what the Spurs’ draw would have been.
It took Judge Pawson four minutes to make the decision that the goal should be dropped, which asked the question after Postcoglou if it was a clear and visible mistake.
“Who cares whether it’s a foul or not? There are so many incidents that are very similar there,” Postecoglou said.
“What is the intention of having a judge there? Clear and clear to me is to go to the screen, you see it,” Oh my Lord, I miss it. “
“I mean. We’re all – not me, because I’m very vocal about it – but everyone accepts it. It will refer to it very soon.
“We can also share with the players at one point. A guy will come up with a genius way to have only one football game without participants because the judges are not judging.”
“If one believes that when it was behaved hanging on what we would sit for six minutes with a microscope, it is irrelevant whether it is a foul or not. It is completely irrelevant.”
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Posteocglou suggested that he lacked sustainability over decision -making as he seemed to refer to the decision not to give the Everton Center defender James Tarkowski a red card in Derby Merseyside after a VAR compilation.
He added: “Jared Gillett was in the hang of tonight. Maybe if Jared Gillett was on hanging last night, it would have been a different result because, again, it falls, I think, for the interpretation of everyone. But I don’t like it, I never liked.”
